A Quote by Henry Edward Armstrong

[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.

Henry Edward Armstrong

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Appear Arrived Atoms Board Chess Chlorine Equality Geometry Molecules Number Off Pattern Professor Result Sodium

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Henry Edward Armstrong
British - Chemist
May 6, 1848 - July 13, 1937

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Jacques Dubochet

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